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Web Browsers/Web Servers Leftovers
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Unicorn Media ☛ No Ads, No Telemetry, No Hey Hi (AI) Agent: Orion Browser Does Linux
Kagi’s privacy-focused, WebKit-based browser arrives for GNU/Linux as a not quite completely open source beta -- with features galore and an opt-in user-funded business model.
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Tony Sundharam ☛ I Just Want to Search | Sid's Blog
Search these days though is a bit of a dumpster fire. It has shifted from just retrieval towards relevance and recommendation and it sucks. I’m not just talking about web search, which has oscillated between “help me find the link for this product” to “somewhat useful if you can ignore the SEO spammers” [1]. No, I’m lamenting how poor search has gotten inside emails, online marketplaces, and messaging apps. I’m lamenting that the user has progressively lost control over what constitutes a search.
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Mozilla
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Jonathan Kamens ☛ New Thunderbird Extension: Per Folder Preferences
Thunderbird is an extremely configurable email client. There are also different levels of configurability: some settings are global to the entire application, some are per account, some are per mail folder, etc. These distinctions are usually obvious and common-sensical, but in my experience, there are some configuration settings which the application only allows to be set globally, but which I personally want to behave differently based on which mail folder I’m currently working in.
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Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)
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Rodrigo Ghedin ☛ State of the [WordPress] Community 2026
The results are out from the independent survey on the WordPress community, conducted by the WP Open Community collective.
It represents a scathing critique of WordPress’s direction and, especially, of Matt Mullenweg’s leadership. For example, 73.8% said they feel more negative about the project than 24 months ago. When asked about open source software in general, the negative outlook dropped to 23.9%. The biggest source of problems, with 73.3% saying they had experienced or witnessed incidents, relates to governance and leadership.
The use of generative AI in WordPress displeases most respondents, even among those who use AI at work.
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